Edward Hopper: Transformation of the Real: 1882-1967

By Rolf Günter Renner

Book Overview

Considered the first important American painter in 20th-century art, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) used color and light to create a mood of transcendent melancholy in images of the streets, houses, and lost souls of pre- and postwar America. This book also shows Hopper's other side - the painter of landscapes in warm brown hues and seascapes that exude a lyrical tranquility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571450998
• ISBN13: 9781571450999
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Pr
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.3" x 0.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great pictures, super annoying dialogue

Author really over does it with word choice. It’s unreadable in my opinion.

A fine summation of an American icon.

While Edward Hopper was an American scene painter, and his work very much a product of it's time, there is something about his choice of subjects, coupled with his very particular point of view, that transcends much of the realism that predated the advent of Abstract Expressionism. Hopper explored the singular melancholy of the American psyche unlike any other painter of his day (or before, or since.) This superb book, one of Taschen's Basic Art series, sums up Hopper's achievement with a concise overview of his work. The text is a first-rate biography and critique rolled into one. The reproductions of the work are clear and beautifully reproduced. If you would like one volume on the work of Hopper this one can't be beat, especially for the very modest price.

A GOOD INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTIST

EDWARD HOPPER'S world of lonelyless is like a mirror of AMERICA 's rural world and also an alienation of city life.There is a real unity in the artist's vision and the way he has chosen to celebrate the people he loved is both moving and haunting.Who can forget those visions of a secretary sitting on the desk and waiting for the boss, and those people in the sun just lying there ,and finally those two women in the restaurant?HOPPER is an artist that really gets to you in a most depressing way.As an introduction to his work, this book is interesting